Roman imperialism in the late republic

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Seite 55... in Sulla — the man whose actions so often summarise and illustrate all that
one has to say about his period. When Sulla had installed Ariobarzanes in his
kingdom (without meeting serious opposition) in 95, he met a Parthian embassy
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Seite 88The natural consequences become clear with M. Crassus and C. Caesar.
Crassus, in his Parthian war, was merely following in Pompey's footsteps. For
Pompey himself — for his part, as we have seen, following in Sulla's — had made
an ...

Seite 91Nor, of course, did he. When he died, he was preparing another Parthian war; for
his policy had come to a dead end: 'Er wollte den Knoten zerhauen, indem er in
den Krieg zog' (as Gelzer has put it).50 The robber barons bred by the removal ...